"I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue."
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"Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark."
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"The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them."
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"What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and tricky the universe is than we think in our daily lives."
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"Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort."
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"Devotion is diligence without assurance"
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"Life's metaphors are God's instructions."
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"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it."
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"To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not."
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"I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore."
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"He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes."
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"The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment."
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"What worked yesterday doesn't always work today."
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"A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake."
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"The resting place of the mind is the heart."
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"I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl."
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"Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you.""
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"the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer"
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"But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass."
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"As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you."
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